Trusting God to Meet Your Needs

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?... ³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. Matt 6:28, 31, 32

Believer, you have great value in the eyes of the Creator.  Jesus says so. Not only are you created in the image of God, but God gave His one and only Son to redeem you.  If God takes great care to feed the birds, that are neither created in His image nor redeemed by His Son, how much more do you think He will care for you?  Romans 8 says it this way “³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” God is in tune with your needs and will meet them.

Most Christians are aware that Jesus says we can trust our Heavenly Father to meet our needs; however, we still worry about having our basic needs met.  Here are two reasons we may do this:   First we refuse to take Jesus at His word. We think somehow the Word doesn’t apply to us or our specific need.  Jesus said it, but somehow we’re the exception. Another is doubt in the goodness of God. God’s goodness is the baseline for His provision for us. Good, loving fathers provide for their children. When we doubt that God will provide for us, we doubt His goodness.

The truth is that even if we believe God will meet our needs, we don’t want to be in a position to have to trust God for His provision. We’d rather have three years’ salary in the bank than have to trust God for our daily bread. That is unfortunate because the foundation of our relationship with the Lord is trust. We believe God, we trust God, but we don’t want to have to depend on Him.  However, the more we trust in God, the more we know Him, the closer we come to Him. “Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him” (James 2:5)

Don’t view having to trust God for your next meal, your mortgage payment, your health, your child’s care as something unfortunate. View it for what it really is--a chance to know your Heavenly Father in a deeper more intimate way.